With over 15 years of Technology experience, Yuri Aguiar has worked with every geographic Region around the world. His initial experience in the Asia Pacific led him to extend his skills to the to the Ogilvy Worldwide operation in New York in 1999. His initial grounding in Regional Management followed by an intense Global Operations role exposed him to many challenges in cross Regional functions.

From the year 2000 he has worked primarily on global IT strategy, defining process and simplifying a complex and dynamic technology environment.

In over 4 years as Senior Partner and Chief Technology Officer, one of his responsibilities is to look for new technologies as they apply to the business and perfect them for a large-scale production environment. Brainstorming sessions, futuristic planning and “out-of-the-box” thinking are part of everyday life for the Worldwide IT Group.

Yuri works with a strong team to create strategic alliances with the right partners and in the process delivered global network standardization, accelerated the consolidation of messaging systems, built a security infrastructure and clearly defined and created the web centric applications framework.

This has induced a level of speed and agility in International communications and has prepared the foundation for an effective telecommuting environment of extremely high standards.

Having traveled the world a number of times, Yuri has worked in a number of cities, speaks at International conferences and is sought after as a judge in numerous Innovative Technology awards competitions. He prides himself on his understanding of local cultures when building Global technology solutions. The Worldwide Technology Group at Ogilvy deals with offices in almost every city around the globe and maintains the mind set of thinking globally but acting locally.

In 2005, Yuri received an award from Computerworld for one of the “Top 100 IT Leaders of the year”, Ogilvy’s project Express file transfers won the 12 Best in Class awards.

Besides Strategic IT planning, Yuri has an avid interest in music and toured with a rock-n-roll group for six years during his younger days. He loves to listen to jazz and blues and is always willing to lend an ear to anyone who wants to talk about anything from Eric Clapton to Jimi Hendrix. His most challenging project at the moment is training his two young sons to play some offbeat drum solos and hold up a baseball bat. His patient wife wears a helmet and ear plugs around the house…